In this key publication, ICHOM Standardization Director Annelotte van Bommel and her colleagues describe the evidence for cost-reduction and outcomes-improvement in surgical audits. They also make the case for moving audits into patient-reported outcomes in addition to typical clinical indicators. You can find this article in our library.

One of ICHOM’s key goals is to enable patients – the most important stakeholders in health care – to choose where to seek medical care based on trustworthy information about quality. But how should quality be defined? How should the quality of health care providers be assessed? The Wall Street Journal’s Melinda Beck investigates the